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"This body of work reveals the interior life of a brilliant young Jewish woman. Born in January 1914, Etty Hillesum began her diary in 1941, nine months after Hitler invaded her home country of the Netherlands. The record she kept for the next two years contains arresting personal reflections and chronicles her social, intellectual, and - most significantly - spiritual growth.
In addition to her ongoing search for God and truth, one of the most noted and instructive features of Etty's development was her recognition of, and her struggle to overcome, the disorder within her own being. It was her success in finally transcending her own sense of captivity within that allowed her to rise above cruel and fearsome circumstances without.".
"Indeed, in the midst of the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, Etty's writings reveal a woman who celebrated life and remained an undaunted example of courage, sympathy, and compassion. Letters that she wrote to friends during her internment at the Westerbork transit camp poignantly describe the day-to-day horrors that the Jewish prisoners faced. Nonetheless, Etty's courage and determination remained strong, allowing her to rise above the hate around her and express her irrepressible faith in humanity.
As she wrote in her last letter, thrown from the train that took her to her death at Auschwitz, "We left the camp singing.""--BOOK JACKET.
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Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943
October 2002, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Hardcover
in English
- Complete a edition
0802839592 9780802839596
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Etty: de nagelaten geschriften van Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
2002, Balans
in Dutch
- 4e herziene en aangevulde druk.
9050185940 9789050185943
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Etty: de nagelaten geschriften van Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
1991, Balans
in Dutch
- 3rde herz. druk
9050181228 9789050181228
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Etty: De nagelaten geschriften van Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
1986, Balans
Unknown Binding
in Dutch
905018006X 9789050180061
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Etty: de nagelaten geschriften van Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
1986, Balans
in Dutch
905018006X 9789050180061
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